Ebrahim Gabriels – Muharram the perfect time for Reflections and Resolutions
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mukher, al muqaddi al Qari Muhammad, Muhtar, Abdul Aziz bin
Masr the shark, masha Allah the sheik teacher, honorable teacher.
Sayyid mutawali was here in the year 2009
and he read a very similar ayah from Surah Al Juma. Today, we are
honored to have a student, Sheik Ari Muhammad Muhtar, Abdulaziz,
JazakAllah khair, to have his Sheik muhta
Kenny for facilitating program inshallah. Without further ado,
because of the brevity of time, I immediately call upon our speaker
for the day who needs really no introduction whatsoever, the
Honorable Sheik Ibrahim Gabriels, to address us, the Imam of masjid
or Robbie in Portland's Mitchell's plane, falafel, mashkura Sheik,
similar him,
Alhamdulillah, Rabbi laminos, alert with Salama Allah azzain A
Salim,
Sayyidina, Wahabi na Muhammad in sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
Rabbi shramy,
wahlusan eftawli, allahum alatakini, Ilana wala akalam
invelik a respected ulama,
my beloved mothers and fathers, beloved sisters and brothers,
beloved and honorable youth and children, I greet you all with the
universal greetings of love and Peace and mercy. Assalamu.
Alaikum. Warahmatullahi barakatu.
We thank Allah for all the favors that Allah has bestowed upon us,
and we thank Allah for the honor
to be again in the Jumah.
And we thank Allah for the greatest favor, and that is that
Allah has chosen us
to be part of the ummah of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad,
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam. We are not Muslims by chance or by
luck. In fact, Allah says in surah Al Hajj, who wa jata Berkun ye
Allah is the one that has chosen you and selected you to be a
Muslim. Alhamdulillah,
wana Shah, Allah, ILAHA, illAllah, wahdahwah, Shari Kala, we be a
testimony that no one has got the right to be worshiped except Allah
alone. And we also be a testimony that our beloved Nabi Muhammad,
sallAllahu, Sallam is the final and the greatest message of Allah
Al qawil, the one that said olan na Sibi, Yama, akhum, ala ya
Salatin, the people closest to me on the Day of Qiyamah, and the
people first in line to enter the Jannah through the shafa of
Rasulullah Ali said to Salam, are those Muslimeen who have put the
Most Salah word on our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam,
so please join me in putting salawat and Rasulillah.
SallAllahu, sallam, Allah,
um Sally Allah,
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Muhammadan,
Muhammad,
Abad, Allah, after that, O beloved servants of Allah, Itta, collah
Mustafa, Atum, always be conscious of Allah
and be obedient to Allah. For indeed, in the whole world, no one
is more happier and no one is more successful than the one that is
obedient to Allah and obedient to our beloved Nabi, Muhammad,
sallAllahu, Sallam wa Alamo, an Allah, akufi mo Kami, tanzily, and
know well that Allah says in the Holy Quran, I don't believe
the baraka Levy. Jalafi Roja wa ja ala fi ha
zero.
Muni ro Allah increase our love for the
Quran.
Allah says in the Quran, Glory be to Allah,
the one that has put in the heavens gigantic stars and rads,
referring to the sun
and the moon. And Allah is the One
who has caused our nights and our days to come and go in succession.
Allah says that the night comes, the days come, in other words,
also week after week, month comes, month goes. A year comes, year
goes. Why?
Liman aradha, Ayad dakkara, for those who want to take heed and
take lessons, for those who want to reflect, for those who want to
think deep
and says Allah diman, Ara dash Qura,
for those who want to thank Allah 1445
is gone. Alhamdulillah, I've done much better. Or he wants to thank
Allah that Allah is giving him another opportunity. Allah didn't
take us away in 1445
I thank Allah that I'm still alive.
Hola, rasulallah,
al kaisu Mandan an AFSA who wa ABIL Ali ma ADAL mode, Listen,
please, my beloved ones, to the words of Rasulullah. Ali said
waslam the most intelligent person is a person that always keeps an
account of himself.
WA Abu Ali ma ADAL mode. And the most intelligent person is a
person that works hard, extremely hard, for what is coming after
death. What is
coming after this? The Kabul, what is coming after death, standing in
front of Allah, the dev Qiyamah, that that those are the most
intelligent people. They are working hard for what comes after
death, says Rasulullah, sallAllahu wasallam,
my beloved ones, we are now in the month of Allah, shahru
Muharram. It is the only month that rasulallah refers to is the
month of Allah,
and this is the perfect time to reflect
and to think deep and to say to ourselves, another year has
passed, and where am I? In closeness to Allah, another year
has passed.
Is Allah satisfied with me? What is my status by Allah. Is Allah?
Is Allah happy
with me?
If Allah takes me away tomorrow, am I ready to meet Allah? This is
the reason why we are in Muharram. This is the reason why we need to
reflect and think deep.
And this is exactly what Allah expects from us
to do at the entering of a new year.
So let us start with our reflections.
How do I perform my salah? How did I perform my salah? And 1445 oh,
for all the years I.
Do I make Salah with with consciousness, in Allah, with
feeling, or is it just, by the way,
do I consider Salah as serious as Rasulullah took it serious our
beloved mother, Sayyidina Aisha, reported to us that the NABI Ali
said waslam was the most loving husband
and gave all his time and spoke to her and made her laugh. But listen
to this. But if the walk of the Salah gets closer, then the NABI
Muhammad changed 363 60 degrees. It is as if rasulallah doesn't
even know me
going to stand now in front of Allah Our
let us reflect Allah a sunna salah.
How do we make our sunnah salah? Just quick and finish in CLA.
Do we realize that the Sunnah Salah is going to help us on the
Day of Qiyamah, because Rasulullah says, if we are short in a far
salah, Allah, through Allah's mercy,
Allah will say to the Malaika, look in the Sunnah salah.
Do we realize that the NABI Muhammad said, any Muslim that
preserves 12 Raqqa al sunna Salah for the day, referring to the two
before Fajr, the four before dur and most of the Muslims only make
two, four before duar, two after duar, the two after maghrib, the
two after Isha, then Allah will build a palace view in Jannah.
How many of the salihim
made? Not 10 rakats extra sunnah salah, not 100 not 150 not 200
1000 raka sunnah Salah between the day and the night.
A typical example is Rabbi Atul adawiya. She used to make 1000
raka sunnah salah. I'm not saying that you and me must do 1000 but
we must do much better. When Rabbi, when he was asked by
Rasulullah, rabiah, you are doing so much for me. What? What can I
give you? He said, rasulallah, just give me a time to think about
and then he said, Ya rasulallah, because of your status with Allah,
ask ALLAH that I be with you in Jannah.
Rasulallah says, Rabia, where did you come from this request?
He said, Yeah, Rasulullah, I thought about it, and I thought,
if you're going to give me something of this world, is this
going to vanish? But that's why I'm asking for your companionship
in Jannah. You know what Rasulullah said to him? No, okay,
I'm going to make that dua, but you must help me. You must help
me. How many help me with catras to sujood? A lot of sujood. What's
a mean? A lot of sujood, a lot of sunnah, Salah. But
there wants another important aspect that we need to reflect on
is how serious do we take the advice and the guidance and
instructions of our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam.
And my humble view is that we as Muslims, we don't take Rasulullah
serious.
For example, Rasulullah says, Whosoever makes salatul Isha with
Jamaah, then by Allah, it is as you've stood half of the night in
ibadah.
And if you make fatal Salah in the masjid, it is by Allah, as if you
stood whole night in Ibadah of Allah. Now I can tell you, as an
imam of Cape Town,
I'm not imam for 36 years, it is still the same amount of people
coming to the masjid,
only 3% okay, let me be kind, only maybe 5% of the Muslim community,
not only Cape Town all over the world, are coming to the masjid
because the Muslims are not taking Rasulullah serious.
I've just heard that we have a janazah here today,
and this elderly father of us in this masjid, he was here for Fajr,
rain, or how do you say raining or shining? He had cancer, chemo,
treatment of that chemo, he is here.
He is a man that took Rasulullah serious.
The word must mean In another Hadith, Nabi Muhammad, says, If
you could only understand and realize the secrets and the
benefits of being Fajr in the masjid, you would have come to the
masjid, even here to crawl to the masjid, says, Rasulullah, but
it doesn't make any impact on the Ummah, but inshaAllah, from the
day onwards, All of us prison is going to make a difference.
Another Hadith, Rasulullah says a person that makes Salah in the
masjid is 27 degrees
better by Allah than making your Salah.
I don't
the time doesn't allow us,
but I brought the book with of the great Imam, Imam Ghazali
Rahmatullah Ali, who was considered as a reformer for this
ummah.
He says it is stupidity
for a Muslim to choose one
upon 27
and as I said, the time doesn't allow us,
but I've worked it out
if your company says to you
that you can either work from home five times per day. Or you can
come into the offices and work from office. But if you come to
the office, we will give you 27,000 for every time you come in.
27,000
per day, plus five five times is 135,000
now look at the other one. If you work at home, you get 1000
per time, 5000 for the day. And I've worked it out quickly for the
for the week, that person that goes to the office, 945,000
Rand for the week, for the month, for the month, not a year,
3,750,000 3,750,000
the other person that works from home,
he gets for the month 140,000
look at 140,000
to 3,000,750
Do you blame Imam Ghazali to say that you are so stupid? I won't
use that word,
but the reformer of this ummah Imam hazali said it
might miss. Mean,
there are so many areas that we need to reflect on, but time
doesn't allow us.
So I'm just going to conclude maybe with two.
And the first one of the last two is, how is our relationship and
connection with the book of Allah? Are
we included in the following words of Rasulillah Ya Allah, nurse is a
man on Al Quran. If you word in one few word in Hiru, a time will
come upon all my people, says Rasulullah, the Quran will be on
the one side of the world, and they will be on the other side of
the world. How do we fatim to the complaint that Allah records the
Quran, that Rasul is going to say the devtiyama in Nakamura, the
Quran Jura, Oh Allah, my people, they have abandoned the Quran, but
the Allah dear ones,
allow me to ask tough questions.
How many times did we open the translation of the Quran
to show Allah
that we honor and we respect and we appreciate the greatest book
that was sent to us.
Just yesterday, I saw a video of yusha Evans. This is a non Muslim.
This is a
born Christian,
he says,
the first time he read the Quran.
And he read Suratul Fatiha, and then he read Aleph, lami, Dali Kal
Kitab Allah says, this is the book. This is the book la raibafi,
and there's no doubt in this book, he said it took him three days to
read the whole Quran. Today, he is a born Christian, but he's calling
people to the dean of Allah. We had a lady in Portland's where I
come from.
She was a priest in one of the big churches in Cape Town.
A long story short, she embraced the deen of Islam.
She got married to a brother of Pakistan. I said to her brother,
brother, please, you don't do what other people are doing. She said
to me, Sheik, you don't need to worry. I'm not embracing Islam
because of him. I'm embracing Islam because of Allah and
Rasulullah. The point I want to make is she died in covid. I met
the brother six months ago, the Pakistani brother Walla. I don't
know why. He told me. He said to me, Sheik, in the five years that
my wife was a Muslim, see, read the Quran, the translation of
Quran 14 times.
We are we.
We need to reflect
what must mean. I
Allah subhanaw wants us,
for example, to be closely connected with the Quran. And I,
because of time, Allah says in surah Luqman, for example, and I
want to ask the question, how are we connected to this ayah in nal?
How are we connected to this word, to
these words of Allah. Allah wants us to understand it and live it.
Allah says those people with Eman and they do good deeds for them.
They are Jannah to Naim.
One day, I read some of the tafsir of jannudan, Jannah to Naim. Your
palace in Jannah to Naim has got 3000 doors. We've got no idea what
Allah has prepared for us. And then Allah says, Khalidi nafiya,
you're going to be forever in Jannah,
not 500 million years, not 500 billion years, not even 500
trillion years, forever. What? What Allah haqqan in Allah also
adds to say the Promise of Allah is the truth.
What must mean
Allah's reflection and
his most most probably one of the most important ones
that we need to think deep about
is our preparations for the day of tiamah,
the day when we going to stand in front of Allah and we're going to
wait for judgment.
Yaw ma yakum, munasu, Lira, mean the day when people going to stand
up in front of Allah. Abdullah ibn imasu Anu Once lit this Allah, and
he read this ayah, and he collapsed because he was sinking
and visualizing standing in front of Allah the Day of Qiyamah. The
word must mean, allow me to say
that I am concerned about the amount of hours that we put in to
receive our results on the day of Qi UML, Qiyamah. And the reason
why I use that phrase the amount of hours, because, for example,
you're in Cape Town now, the meticulous of this year, they are
putting in so many hours, and even the parents so many hours to
succeed. At the end of the year,
how many hours do we put in
for the deviant?
We get special tutors for our children in mathematics, in
physical science, so that it can pass at the end of the year. How
many tutors do we get our children so that it can pass the day of
your milky Emma
in 1992
i My time is actually over, but I'm going to take another three
minutes to wrap up. It's not enough. But quickly, in 1992
I went with the olamah delegation, when the problem started in
Somalia,
and one day we made Salah in the masjid in Nairobi in the city
center.
And the people come, so many people come for dour Salah. So
they give 20 minutes. And in the 20 minutes, one of the Ulama will
stand up and give advice. And that day, I was so fortunate. I was
there.
He says, Allah says, in Quran, I'm hasI Batum and tatul walamma, ya
Allahu La Dina jahadum. Do you think that you're just simply
going to Jannah? Listen to Jannah? Listen to this. This is the way he
translated it, and you haven't shown Allah yet that you are
serious to go to Jannah. I'm
going to repeat that Jama to Muslim so that all of us can
remember it first. Me, Do you think that you just simply going
to Jannah? Allah has prepared the Jannah for all of us, but you
think that you just simply going to, and you haven't shown Allah
yet that you are serious to go to Jannah.
And then he said, the devkiyama, you going to open your pages, your
book, first page. Salatu tahajjud, your name is not there. Sunnah
fasting, your name is not there. Salatu Doha, your name is not
there. Involving the community, not there then Malay, can I ask
now, what did you do with all your time? So jamat must mean
our resolutions, because that is a topic, reflections and
resolutions. Quickly. The first resolution is that I would advise
myself first and then your honorable selves. He said, every
day, from day to day onwards, make at least 100 times istiqarla,
please forgive me. And part of that meaning is, Oh Allah, please
forgive me for the time that they wasted. And Allah will forgive us.
Secondly,
make a decision today to spend more time with the Quran. Thirdly,
make a firm intention to abandon all wrongdoings.
I was so proud the last time that I was here in masjidur majidur
Kutz,
I spoke about * and addiction to *. I'm so
proud of one of.
Musalis here that same day, he texts me, he said to Shaykh, I've
got that problem. What? What should I do now? That is the
spirit of a Muslim that you admit to your wrongs and you are
prepared to change. I also want to say to the smokers,
this is a time to quit smoking.
Make that decision.
All wrongdoings.
Make a decision today,
my dear ones, this is the fourth one that you going to implement
the advice and guidance of Allah. You know what Allah says to all of
us? Nobody is excluded. Yay, waladina, Guru, laha, vikran,
kathirah, oh, you believe remember Allah and remember Allah in
abundance? I haven't got the time now, but I can advise you,
almost a year ago, I told the Jama importance at the Fajr the Fajr
family brothers, Allah says to us, remember all in abundance. When
are we going to start? When I went home, I said to myself, Ibrahim,
you told the people, when are you going to start? So I'm just
sharing something personal, because I'm speaking now to my own
brothers and sisters. So personally, I decided almost a
year ago that I'm going to do 1000 times La ilaha illallah, and up
till yesterday, I did it. So that is my advice to your honorable
selves. And I'm sure that the committee and the Trust Board in
Shah Brahman would allow me next year, also Muharram, I come back
just to check up and follow up who started with 1000 times and
implement the words of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. So it must mean
we end off with the best of words,
Allah says to us here, I will live takula While Tandur nafsimah, oh,
you believe
fear Allah and
let each and every person look into what you have sent forward
for tomorrow, the day of qiyama, That every person look into your
paper, reasons for the Qiyamah. And then Allah says Again, what
takula Fear, Allah in Allah, Habiru, matama Lun Indeed, Allah
is well informed and well acquainted with whatever you do.
Another way to put it, Allah knows each one of us in detail. Wa
SallAllahu, sayna, Muhammad, Alhamdulillah of lalamin. Lastly,
mouth, I just want to announce and also remind that Gaza is still
bleeding, still bleeding.
And Inshallah, next week, Thursday. Thursday coming. We have
our Palestinian program here at Muslim. I'm asking everybody to
fast on Thursday for the people of Gaza and come and break your fast
here Thursday night. And Inshallah, we've applied to have a
March next week, 20th of July. And this time, we're going to march to
the American Consulate. InshaAllah, JazakAllah,
sallAllahu, sinno Muhammad, Alhamdulillah,
Allah, shukran among Gabriels. Inshallah, next year, we will be
there really where the report card to show Sheik,
and we can reflect and and ponder on the resolutions that Sheik has
advised us on. So some announcement. Firstly, shukran to
yankari hafith, Ibrahim, Abdul Aziz for his rendition of the
Quran Kira earlier, and then also to our guest from Egypt, Kari
Muhammad, Muktar Abdulaziz, just a few announcements around some
programs that's happening in the community, the marcas Manar Al
Fakir and Ipsy
Presents unveiling tyranny by Ustad Hamza tortis is basically on
the 17th of July, Wednesday, the 17th of the Maghrib that is UCT
upper campus in the new lecture theater, as well as another talk
on the Thursday, the 18th of the Ishai at the Daru Islam majjid in
sari estate. The topic is leadership in a lost world by the
same speaker, Inshallah, we'll have our Mashiro Kutz muharam
program on the 10th of Muharram. Obviously, this is the coincidence
of the 16th Tuesday, the 16th of July program is from Isha
inshallah. Please join us. As Sheik Gabriel says, mentioned, our
Kutz foundation is having a vicar next week, Thursday, the 18th
between Maghrib and Ishay. Please join them.
Just a notice for the community, especially those within the
surrounding areas. We had our regular musalli Faru
that was attacked one Fajr morning on his way to the majjid. So
please, those that do come to the majesty, just be careful. Be more
vigilant around those elements that surround you. Inshallah, this
is an isolated incident, but just be more weary and keep your eyes
open to these type of things that might occur. There's also request
for dua or shifa for the following, Abdul mana and kafour,
nayat Abdullah, Sharif, Hassan Palika.
There's also request for dua for those.
Is passed on, specifically the Janaza of the regular musalia, aji
Sheik Abdul Rahman Muhammad. Um, he used to sit always in that
corner there for those musalis that you regularly, um, and also
be here at all times, even though he wasn't well, um, he's passed on
the day of Juma Inshallah, Allah grant him janafil dose as well as
he's got quite a big congregation for the janazah salah, which is
also indicator, and maybe some Sabah for the family that is
inshallah also to offer those that passed on during the week. Momola,
niece of Amir Hoth from Baluchi leather and Marum Muhammad Umar
Usman Radan of standardton had passed away this week. Inshallah,
next week, we'll have Sheik Alexander that was speaking. We'll
have our acne cells normally on the library side. So please do
support us on last request. Samajit is full, and obviously,
with the potential rain, we'd like to get the musalis in. So if you
can stand up, fill the stuffs from the front please. So give you one
minute just to do that before the other.
So if you can fill the gaps tightly to your shoulder to
shoulder, try to get as many people in as possible upstairs as
well. For the ladies, if you can do the same, fill this house from
the front as well as upstairs on the main side as well, and as
normal, on the left and right hand sides in the main majjit is
normally a gap that forms, so if you can just follow that quite
quickly, it just allows us To start the Juma program A bit
faster. Shukran, you
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afterwards. Can you kindly bring the maid to the front? Please,
may yet of our father of the masjid Sheik Abdul Rahman
Muhammad, the father of Dr ezet and grandson in law. Will lead
janazah salah.
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just make a way open for them to come through. Please. I
just open the way, please. I let them first come forward, and then
they can turn the head on that side.
Turn then please do.
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right? Okay, come to the front right down
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